Yet the Honourable Minister of Education has deliberately tried to mislead the public to believe that ASUU’s agreement requires N78 billion, when, in fact, it requires less than 30% of that amount.”

According to John, this has brought discouragement to a good numbers of students thereby narrowing down the numbers of people with the certificate.

While briefing newsmen in Lagos, the Head of Marketing of Longman Nigeria Plc, Allwell Nwankwo, noted that the company had expanded its business beyond book publishing.

According to him, “The failing University system was resultant from lack of research skills in modern methods — there is disconnect between research and economy; under-funding, which result in constraints of equipment for carrying out state of the art research; over loaded teaching and administrative schedules, which leave little time for research, etc.”

To determine the extent/level of distortion; advise on possible review and make suggestion on ways and means of ensuring efficient implementation of the outstanding parts of the plan.

We also operate several scholarship programmes such as the Community Scholarship for our areas of operation, the National University Scholarship schemes, the Blind Students Scholarship for Medical, Nursing Laboratory Sciences and Engineering Students.

Test questions can be created in ‘banks’ and delivered at random, cutting out ‘battery’ testing, i.e. the need to test all candidates at the same time on the same day.

At the end of the debate, Group A scored a total of 435 points to emerge winner. Group B trailed behind with 423 points to come second.

Vanguard investigation revealed that because of the ongoing strike by the two unions, essential services on campuses, such as water and electricity supply have become erratic especially because of SSANU’s strike which enters the fourth day today.

Speaking on the rich human resources available to the proposed university, Wale Oke said: “We have secured the commitment of very seasoned and experienced university scholars and administrators to help give the university a strong foundation at its take off.

Further, Agbai said the objective of the fair is to promote accelerated development of educational system to meet global standards, to promote comparative judgement of schools in a single occassion and provide a real snap shot of public and private schools.

Prof. Aigbomian thanked all in the university for their support which resulted in the successful completion of his tenure and also congratulated the Acting Vice Chancellor on his new appointment.

He maintained that he was the first to notice the abnormally in the e-payment system and drew the management attention to it but after thorough investigation, “I discovered that it was nothing but a computer error from the office of the Accountant-General of the state,” he said, adding that the money had been paid back into government confers by the school’s management.

Isekhure, who is also the Chief Priest to the Oba of Benin, fielded questions from newsmen in Benin yesterday on the on-going nationwide strike embarked upon by ASUU over the failure of the federal government to implement an earlier agreement it reached with the body and said there was no need for the government to have entered into any negotiation with the university teachers if it knew it was not ready to implement such an agreement.

“Therefore quality education is a fundamental requirement for national transformation. History has it that: Black people built he first civilization; Black people built the pyramid of Egypt; Black people were the first to develop Architecture, Geometry and Astrology; Great Historians, Artists and Mathematicians went to Egypt for their education from 2900BC to 600BC.”